Re: [Gretl-devel] [Gretl-users] variable types in different scripts

On 01/22/2011 01:52 PM, Sven Schreiber wrote: > [I]t should be acknowledged that it is a real > limitation of gretl to have only global variables (apart from the > function scope), not to turn that around into a feature. In my view the gretl script is an arbitrary textual unit, and it does not make sense to limit the scope of variables based on the script. I can see a case for local variables, but these should be local to non-arbitrary code blocks. For example it would be quite nice to be able to say, within a loop or an if-block for example, local matrix foo = whatever so that the object would be destroyed automatically on exit from the block. But scripts are not (logically) code blocks.